Elio Vittorini

Elio Vittorini (July 23, 1908 - February 12, 1966) was an Italian writer and novelist. He was a contemporary of Italo Calvino's and an influential voice in the modernist school of novel writing. His best-known work is the anti-fascist novel Conversations in Sicily, for which he was jailed when it was published in 1941. The first U.S. edition of the novel, published in 1949, included an introduction from Ernest Hemingway, whose style influenced Vittorini and that novel in particular.

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July 23 - 1908 - February 12 - 1966 - Italian - Writer - Novelist - Italo Calvino - Modernist - Fascist - Conversations in Sicily - 1941 - 1949 - Ernest Hemingway

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